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From advising to sections to the Core, this generation’s curricular review may well fix a cornucopia of long-standing problems at the College. And as long as the next stages of the process are open to the scrutiny of the undergraduate community, this unexciting start might still inspire the participation of students at the College, who for the most part haven’t caught on to University Hall’s curricular review craze. Yet there remain a number of ways this whole undertaking could fail students—reforms that benefit administrators more than undergraduates...
...that alluring elective—“Psychology and the Law,” “The History of Harvard and Its Presidents” or “Riemannian and Lorentzian Geometry”—to fulfill that pesky Foreign Cultures or Science B Core requirement...
...curricular review that plans to do away with the Core curriculum released results this April to divided reactions from faculty. Among a total of 57 recommendations, it suggests axing first-year blocking groups, pushing concentration choice back a semester and creating a centralized advising system...
...keeping with the goal of increased flexibility that administrators have touted since the review was officially launched in fall 2002, the curricular review report recommends that the College replace the 25-year-old Core with a distribution requirement of two classes in each of five areas. Provisionally, these areas will be the humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences, the physical sciences and engineering and international perspectives...
...body of “integrative, foundational courses” known as the Harvard College Courses will replace the Core, but these will be optional—students will also be able to fulfill their general education requirements with regular departmental classes...